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Play card games in your stride
I recently gave a talk at the UK’s Cloud Circle Security Forum in which I included material...
Author: ...Planky Date: 10/26/2011
The New Series of the Windows Azure Bootcamp UK Continues in London & Edinburgh!
Registration is now open for the November edition of the Windows Azure BootCamp (powered by...
Author: ...Planky Date: 10/14/2011
List of all the latest Windows Azure Cloud videos
A whole load of new videos are available as a result of the build conference. Here is the complete...
Author: ...Planky Date: 09/21/2011
Iterative MapReduce on Windows Azure
Microsoft has developed an iterative MapReduce runtime for Windows Azure, code-named Daytona....
Author: ...Planky Date: 07/19/2011
Windows Azure Bootcamp: Complete run-through
I’ve created a complete run through of everything in the UK bootcamp, all in order. Click the first...
Author: ...Planky Date: 06/30/2011
UK Windows Azure Bootcamp: SQL Azure – Session 2
The second session of the bootcamp was SQL Azure. Watch this video before you attempt any of the...
Author: ...Planky Date: 06/30/2011
UK Windows Azure Bootcamp: Session 1, Compute and Storage
Here’s the video of session 1. Windows Azure Bootcamp Session 1 from Steve Plank on Vimeo. Planky –...
Author: ...Planky Date: 06/30/2011
Windows Azure Bootcamps Labs: SQL Azure Labs 1 to 3
The second section of the bootcamp deals with SQL Azure. This is not a standalone lab – it builds on...
Author: ...Planky Date: 06/29/2011
Windows Azure Bootcamp Labs Screencasts: Labs 1 to 4
Here are the first 4 labs in the Web Role, Worker Role and Storage section of the bootcamp. UK...
Author: ...Planky Date: 06/29/2011
Windows Azure Bootcamp Labs Screencasts: Intro–What You’ll be Building
This is just a screencast to show you what the labs instruct you to build. UK Windows Azure...
Author: ...Planky Date: 06/29/2011
UK Windows Azure Bootcamp Lab Screencasts: now available online
The UK ran a series of Windows Azure Bootcamps. Video screencasts of the labs are now available....
Author: ...Planky Date: 06/29/2011
Burning the midnight oil in the UK
Rock, Paper, Azure. A developer competition in which you could win $5,000. You download some Azure...
Author: ...Planky Date: 06/21/2011
Click-by-Click Video: Using on-premise Active Directory to authenticate to a Windows Azure App
This video is a click-by-click, line-by-line screen-cam of how to authenticate using an on-premise...
Author: ...Planky Date: 06/14/2011
Massive screens
We just finished Tech Days here in the UK. A week of talks and the Windows Azure bootcamp. Talks...
Author: ...Planky Date: 06/02/2011
Hmm–that’s a good idea: Microsoft to buy Skype
Yes, it’s true. The news has been buzzing around the Internet and mainstream media channels this...
Author: ...Planky Date: 05/10/2011
Windows Azure Bootcamp: Links
Here are all the links to the “other resources” from the bootcamps that ran last Wednesday: Visual...
Author: ...Planky Date: 05/09/2011
Free Windows Azure in-person training (UK)
There is still time to book on to the free Windows Azure half-day bootcamp running on 4th May at the...
Author: ...Planky Date: 04/28/2011
Dryad: Program thousands of machines without knowing anything about parallel programming
The guys at Microsoft Research are doing some interesting things with parallel programming. It’s not...
Author: ...Planky Date: 04/26/2011
Tech Days Online: Managing the Cloud. 14:00 UK Time Today…
Some of you may not know there is a capability in System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2007 R2...
Author: ...Planky Date: 04/19/2011
Windows Azure Platform Training Kit–April Update available
The training kit has been updated for the 1.4 SDK and has new and updated labs added....
Author: ...Planky Date: 04/19/2011
UK Tech Days 2011: Building and deploying applications onto the Windows Azure Platform for cloud computing, 23rd May, repeated on 24th May, London
This day is about getting you up to speed on why you should be looking at the Windows Azure...
Author: ...Planky Date: 04/15/2011
Open Source goes multi-instance on Windows Azure
You may know there is a collection of Open Source Software packages ready and waiting to be...
Author: ...Planky Date: 04/14/2011
A new way to package old apps for Windows Azure: increase abstraction.
Web Role, Worker Role and VM Role are all designed to solve problems along the continuum of...
Author: ...Planky Date: 04/08/2011
Learn about application virtualization
In concert with my previous post regarding Server App-V, you might be interested to learn about the...
Author: ...Planky Date: 04/06/2011
Why is Windows Server App-V a good thing for cloud computing?
With all the pzazz of a Vegas Showgirl, Server App-V was announced at the Microsoft Management...
Author: ...Planky Date: 04/06/2011
Half-day Windows Azure Bootcamps: Get started with Windows Azure
If you are a UK developer looking to take advantage of cloud computing, but you haven’t yet taken...
Author: ...Planky Date: 03/22/2011
Online Talk: Security integration with the cloud using Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS). 22-March at 14:00 GMT (07:00 PST)
I’ll be covering how to set up ADFS 2.0 for authenticating to Windows Azure apps and Office 365. The...
Author: ...Planky Date: 03/21/2011
Cloud Virtual Networks: PaaS and IaaS approaches
As applications that are used by employees of large corporate enterprises start to work their way in...
Author: ...Planky Date: 03/17/2011
If VM Role isn’t IaaS, where exactly, does it fit in?
Amazon, traditionally an IaaS cloud provider, has now introduced Beanstalk, a PaaS model for the...
Author: ...Planky Date: 03/16/2011
Windows Azure and Open Source Applications
Whenever most of us think of OSS, we think in terms of a stack with Linux at the bottom, providing...
Author: ...Planky Date: 03/14/2011
Windows Azure SDK Refresh available. New Windows Azure Management Portal.
The current SDK (1.3) and Tools for Visual Studio has been refreshed to 1.4. It’s mainly a stability...
Author: ...Planky Date: 03/11/2011
London scrubs up to a high gloss finish with Windows Azure and Windows Phone 7
The Mayor of London is an entertaining fellow. A regular on the TV news quiz “Have I Got News For...
Author: ...Planky Date: 03/11/2011
Windows Azure: 750 hours per month free. Even if you don’t have an MSDN subscription
It used to be that unless you had an MSDN Universal or Premium subscription, you could only get 25...
Author: ...Planky Date: 03/10/2011
Cloud Computing Framework from Microsoft Research: Orleans
Grains and Silos. Promises are resolved if they are either kept or broken. It’s a bit of an academic...
Author: ...Planky Date: 03/10/2011
Cloud Track is part of UK Tech Days Conference in May
Tech Days is running again this year. 3 days of Cloud, Web, Client and Phone with tracks for both IT...
Author: ...Planky Date: 03/09/2011
Windows Azure and Windows Phone power Southampton University’s Research Balloon.
I thought this was a very neat combination of mobile, cloud and more physical technologies (like a...
Author: ...Planky Date: 03/09/2011
Windows Phone 7 + Cloud Services SDK Developer Preview is now Available
Microsoft Research has made available for download a developer preview of its Windows Phone 7...
Author: ...Planky Date: 03/08/2011
Cloud Channel on The Register
I’ve been offline for a little while looking after my wife who’s just had some serious surgery. But...
Author: ...Planky Date: 03/08/2011
Office 365 federated access for home workers
If you are a home worker, sat on the Internet outside of your corporate network (VPNs excepted),...
Author: ...Planky Date: 01/28/2011
Whiteboard video: How ADFS and the Microsoft Federation Gateway work together up in the Office 365 Cloud.
Another “whiteboard video” that gives a quick overview of the flows of data and comes in as a handy...
Author: ...Planky Date: 01/25/2011
Video Screencast: Complete setup details for federated identity access from on-premise AD to Office 365.
How to set up IIS, ADFS 2.0, the Federation Config Tool and Office 365 Dirsync. The video starts...
Author: ...Planky Date: 01/24/2011
Tune in to the WebMatrix launch Thursday 13th Jan. Lots of techie demos.
Microsoft is holding the inaugural launch for a new product, Microsoft WebMatrix at the CodeMash...
Author: ...Planky Date: 01/12/2011
Video: How Windows Azure App Fab:ACS and ADFS 2.0 work together
This is a short video that describes how an on-prem ADFS 2.0 server, Windows Azure App Fab:...
Author: ...Planky Date: 01/11/2011